Isabel Ling

1 month ago | curbed.com | Isabel Ling

For the last 36 years, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York has operated a Manhattan health center out of a landmarked, seven-story Classic Revival building on Bleecker Street off the Bowery. Last week, the nonprofit announced plans to close the clinic and sell the Noho building that houses it, listing it for $39 million.

2 months ago | thisismold.com | Isabel Ling

Sheida Soleimani is thinking about buying a tugboat. “Imagine, I could have a studio on the water, but I could also run a hospital for seabirds at the same time,” she gushes, her thumb hovers mid-scroll above the Craigslist listing pulled up on her phone. We are standing in the intake room of Congress of the Birds, the bird clinic the Iranian-American artist and bird rehabilitator has run out of the basement of her Providence, Rhode Island home since 2018.

2 months ago | thisismold.com | Isabel Ling

In 1959, the Ise Bay Typhoon swept through Japan’s Aichi prefecture, destroying entire agrarian communities with an onslaught of catastrophic flooding. One year later, architect Kisho Kurakawa presented his proposal for “Agricultural City,” a design concept that lofted not just buildings, but the entire city grid onto stilts, elevating the built environment four meters above agricultural soil.

Dec 6, 2024 | thisismold.com | Isabel Ling

Upon walking into Gala Porras-Kim’s exhibition at the Storefront for Art & Architecture one is immediately enveloped in a hazy blanket of steam. A nostalgic, mineral scent hangs in the air. Wet and sticky, The motion of an alluvial record offers a multi-sensorial experience rarely encountered in art institutions. For this exhibition, one part of Storefront’s yearlong series of programming and installations examining swamp ecologies, the artist has constructed a hothouse.

Dec 5, 2024 | thisismold.com | Meg Miller |Julia Georgallis |Stephen Reid |Isabel Ling

As we round out the year, MOLD is back with another edition of our annual gift guide. Once again, we’ve gathered the writers, artists, and designers behind MOLD to provide their recommendations for all of your gift-giving needs this holiday season. For the window-sill gardener we have an olfactorily photorealistic tomato perfume from our friends at Cactus Store or a pair of perfect pruning scissors.